2025 Budget: See How Much Was Allocated for Various Projects
The John Dramani Mahama-led administration has presented its maiden Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament.
It was presented by Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson on March 11, 2025.
The Budget Statement allocated funds to various sectors and key policies of the government such as the No-Academic-Fee policy for first-year students in public tertiary institutions and free sanitary pads to female students in primary and secondary schools.
Below are the various Allocations:
2025 BUDGET : Allocations to Various Sectors or Programmes
1. GH¢13.85 billion: Allocation for the Big Push Programme.
2. GH¢499.8 million: Allocation for the No-Academic-Fee policy for first-year students in public tertiary institutions.
3. GH¢292.4 million: Allocation for the distribution of free sanitary pads to female students in primary and secondary schools.
4. GH¢242.5 million: Allocation to support victims of the Akosombo dam spillage.
5. GH¢200 million: Allocation to support victims of the tidal wave disaster in the Ketu South constituency.
6. GH¢3.5 billion: Allocation for the free secondary education program.
7. GH¢564.6 million: Allocation for comprehensive provision of free curricula-based textbooks.
8. GH¢1.788 billion: Allocation for the School Feeding Programme.
9. GH¢145.5 million: Allocation for the Capitation Grant.
10. GH¢203 million: Allocation for the payment of teacher trainee allowances.
11. GH¢480 million: Allocation for the payment of nursing trainee allowances.
12. GH¢9.93 billion: Allocation for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
13. GH¢2.81 billion: Allocation for the Ghana Road Fund.
14. GH¢7.51 billion: Allocation for the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
15. GH¢1.5 billion: Allocation for Agriculture for Economic Transformation Agenda (AETA).
16. GH¢51.3 million: Allocation as seed fund for the establishment of the Women’s Development Bank.
17. GH¢300 million: Allocation for the National Apprenticeship Programme.
18. GH¢100 million: Allocation for the ‘Adwumawura’ Programme.
19. GH¢100 million: Allocation for the National Coders Programme
